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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Yemen	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	16,728	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	17,236	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	17,762	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	18,310	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	18,855	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	19,410	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	20,000	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	20,611	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	21,236	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	21,878	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	22,533	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	23,195	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	23,880	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	24,594	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	25,311	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	26,020	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	26,698	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	27,347	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	27,985	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	28,608	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	29,216	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	29,811	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	30,399	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	31,058	108,171

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Argentina

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

No separate list is published for Yemen, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.